At the height of Tim Maia's soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two plus albums of some of Brazil's-and the globe's-best funk and soul music.
Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts.
In Zusammenarbeit mit einigen hervorragenden Mozartkennern bringt der bekannte Musikwissenschaftler Paul Nettl dem Liebhaber und dem Fachmann den Genius Mozart nahe, indem er die besten musikwissenschaftlichen Quellen zusammenfaßt.
Paul Wranitzky, ein Zeitgenosse von Größen wie Haydn, Mozart und Beethoven, erlebte in seiner Zeit großen Ruhm, geriet jedoch im Laufe der Geschichte fast in Vergessenheit.
Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history.
Most scholars since World War Two have assumed that composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) maintained a strong attachment to Judaism throughout his lifetime.
The official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives pioneers new areas of research into the life, times, and music of the master composer.
When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the 16th Century miller Veit to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (1759-1845), Johann Sebastian's grandson.
This book is a successor to J Griffiths, A Bood and H Weyers, Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press 1998) which was widely praised for its thoroughness, clarity, and accuracy.
Der Komponist Max Reger hat nicht nur manche Zeitgenossen in Nervosität versetzt wie insbesondere die Vertreter der »Münchner Schule« während seines Intermezzos an der hiesigen Akademie der Tonkunst, sondern auch aktuell löst sein Name mitunter Unruhe aus, wenn die Divergenz zwischen dem ohne Weiteres ihm zugebilligten Rang als Vertreter der Jahrhundertwendenmoderne und seiner bis heute dennoch merkwürdig »gebremsten« Rezeption bewusst wird.
Not a biography in the traditional sense, this book is a consideration of De Leeuw's thoughts and composition, first and foremost by the composer himself.
As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Italian pop.
Struggling for Perfection is the story of the famous pianist, an enigmatic figure who made some of the most acclaimed classical recordings of the last century.
Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone offers, in detailed interpretative commentaries of his best songs, a sustained assessment of the work and career of Scott Walker, one of the most significant and perplexing artists of the late 20th and 21st century.
Through film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has not dated.
This fresh interpretation explains how an untutored musician changed music while at the same time playing an inadvertent role in the youth rebellion that has shaped the Baby Boomer generation into the 21st century.
Finalist: PROSE Awards 2023 - Media and Cultural StudiesMichael Jackson died in 2009, but he has never really left us and there are no signs he ever will.
With her urban prom-queen style and West London punk attitude, Lily Allen is recognised worldwide as much for her quirky image and party-girl reputation as her music.
A superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that's as intense and fast paced as the life of "e;The Killer"e; himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed"e;The category in which Jerry Lee Lewis truly belongs is 'Jerry Lee Lewis.
Der 1924 geborene Klaus Huber, 2009 mit dem begehrten Siemens-Musikpreis ausgezeichnet und soeben mit dem Deutschen Musikautorenpreis 2013, ist einer der renommiertesten Schweizer Komponisten des 20.
*; Reveals Jim Morrison as a shamanic initiate and esoteric teacher who used his role as a rock singer to promote the adventure of the spirit and express the power of inner experience*; Examines Morrison's deep occult and artistic influences, including Kurt Seligmann's The Mirror of Magic, Colin Wilson's The Outsider, and the works of Jack Kerouac*; Draws on Morrison's lyrics and poems, his intimate writings, and the recollections of friends like photographer Paul Ferrara and Doors keyboard player Ray ManzarekThe groundbreaking 1960s band The Doors, named for Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, achieved incredible acclaim and influence, ultimately serving as a key group in the development of psychedelic and progressive rock.
Many advocates of euthanasia consider the criminal law to be an inappropriate medium to adjudicate the profound ethical and humanitarian dilemmas associated with end of life decisions.
